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Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich
7.9
/10
24,211 Ratings

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH

Directed by Spike Jonze
United States, 1999
Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis

A lowly puppeteer takes a job as a file clerk in an office, only to discover a mysterious portal that transports a person into the mind of actor John Malkovich, only to be spit out alongside the New Jersey Turnpike fifteen minutes later.

Synopsis

A lowly puppeteer takes a job as a file clerk in an office, only to discover a mysterious portal that transports a person into the mind of actor John Malkovich, only to be spit out alongside the New Jersey Turnpike fifteen minutes later.

Our take

It’s hard to imagine that Spike Jonze’s mind-melder was also the debut film from this music and skateboard video director. But Charlie Kaufman’s script helped Jonze create such a fully-formed universe of the hilariously bizarre (and plaintively melancholy) that it become an immediate modern classic.